Re: [ruby-tut] Ruby Tutorial question: what is a Terminal?

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello Sid,

Sorry for the delay in responding, but since you weren't subscribed to the 
list, your email got caught in the administrator box, which I hardly ever 
check.

A terminal is a Unix concept. The closest thing in Windows world is the 
"console". You don't need a terminal to use Ruby. The only reason why a 
terminal is mentioned in the tutorial is because in Unix you use a 
terminal to get irb. But irb is what really matters for the tutorial.

Cheers,
Daniel.


On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 01:25:48PM -0500, Sid Coalman wrote:
> 
>    Hi,    I've been trying to learn Ruby since two days and now
>    understand the very basic things, thanks to your tutorial (although
>    I've been reading the french traduction)
>    
>    My question is, at the start of the tutorial, they asks us to open a
>    Terminal, which I do not understand what it is. I've been following
>    the tutorial directly from Interactive Ruby Shell although in the
>    tutorial they seem to open IRB from the Terminal.
>    
>    Is this Terminal a program and if so, where could I get it?
>    
>    URL of the tutorial I use:
>    [1]http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/beginner-fr/xhtml/ch01.html
>    Thanks in advance from a future Ruby user (I hope)   Andre Taron
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/beginner-fr/xhtml/ch01.html

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